On Our CoverSpring Hoists the Start of Sailing Season: Rounding the mark on 12-meter racing yachts, sailors jockey for position in one of the many regattas that return to our Bay each spring, summer and fall. Photo courtesy of Ocean Race Chesapeake.

Singing the ChesapeakeJohn Denver Award-Winning Folk Musician Tom Wisnerby Kent MountfordFor a guy parading as a singer-songwriter in the Chesapeake boonies for the past 35 years, says Wisner, getting the John Denver award is like getting an Oscar from God.

Chesapeake DiscoveriesAnne Arundel County Gets a New Old Townby Pat PiperBuried for three centuries, Herrington sees daylight again.